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Antonia Zerbisias

Antonia Zerbisias is a former columnist for the Toronto Star and is the co-creator of #BeenRapedNeverReported.

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ViewsFriday, November 25, 2016Canada At Risk of Sinking in Trump's Political TsunamiWhen economic waves come out of Washington, they rock Canada. Now, with the Donald Trump tsunami heading towards the White House, Canadians fear their already floundering economy could be sunk. Pundits and politicians are already predicting the death of trade agreements between the two neighbours...Read more

ViewsTuesday, May 31, 2016Thanks for the Memories, Stephen HarperThere's no question that Stephen Harper, Canada's former prime minister, will be leaving a legacy when he quits parliament this summer. A political mastermind, he united the country's fractious right in 2003 when his Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) was born. In 2006, he led it to the first of...Read more

ViewsWednesday, January 20, 2016Sponsor Syrian Refugee - Canada's Top Google SearchLast September, after the photograph of three-year-old Alan Kurdi's body on that Turkish beach hit the world's front pages, the top Google search term in Canada was, "How to sponsor a Syrian?" The news media here, in the midst of covering a federal election campaign, jumped all over the Kurdi story...Read more

ViewsMonday, December 14, 2015Note to World Leaders: This Is How to Welcome RefugeesThey were hardly the poor, huddled masses Canadians might have expected. In fact, the 163 privately sponsored Syrian refugees from Lebanon who landed in Toronto late last Thursday looked less bedraggled and besieged than other Canadians do after a long overseas flight. But then, most Canadians don'...Read more

ViewsFriday, July 10, 2015Welcome to Canada But Don't Get Too ComfortableWelcome to Canada. Well maybe not welcome exactly. Things have changed for newcomers to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Canada. As a matter of fact, they're now also different for "oldcomers" with dual citizenship - and even native-born Canadians who somehow managed to score dual...Read more

ViewsWednesday, May 27, 2015Is Canada on the Path to Totalitarianism?Last Tuesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that they had made a series of arrests over the previous weekend at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport. The operation was carried out "in order to disrupt the plans of 10 young Montreal residents suspected of wanting to leave...Read more

ViewsTuesday, May 05, 2015Omar Khadr's Road to FreedomNobody was surprised when the Canadian government announced on April 24 that it would again dip into the public purse to keep its most prominent political prisoner behind bars. That morning, Justice June Ross of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench decided that Omar Khadr, 28, was low-risk, had been...Read more

ViewsFriday, March 27, 2015Look Up, Way Way UpIt's no wonder that, this week, Canadians nervously cracked jokes about an Orwellian future in which drones zip up to highrise windows to spy on citizens going about their daily business. That's because, on Monday, Industry Minister James Moore announced a $75 million "repayable contribution" to...Read more

ViewsThursday, November 06, 2014How #BeenRapedNeverReported Became a MovementI am not sure what it was that pushed me to tweet three deeply personal memories that I had never shared with anyone, let alone the millions on social media. But in the early evening of Thursday, October 30, that's what I did, almost casually tossing them off, as if I were snarking about the Oscars...Read more

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